nimbus
noun
a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
nimbuses
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pluralof nimbus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Even when the music whips up complex, noisy nimbuses of competing motifs, the fast, finely judged changes within the dense activity are preparing you for variations on the weather.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
White dogwood branches looked like clouds, the pale saucers of their blossoms arranged in white nimbuses.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2018
A mid-17th-century watercolor with gold and ink shows them with flaming nimbuses over their heads, rather than the round halos of Western art, and yet Mary is dressed in Western style.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2015
Their brandished spears made nimbuses over their heads; and this time their response was like the baying of hounds.
From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman
The trees already showed shadows as of a multitude of bird wings; the peach-trees stood aloof in rosy nimbuses, and the cherry-trees were faintly a-flutter with white through an intense gloss of gold-green.
From The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
